That was it.
Heh, I was looking for a political cartoon that illustrated my feelings perfectly (By Eric Allie, who was/is one of the most accomplished political cartoonists alive) and was unable to find it, but I did find this flow chart I had made which showed how I saw the whole thing (I think it might have been made sometime after Patrick Kennedy who was driving drunk and blamed it on Ambien back in 2006)
Ha that flow chart is exactly right. Bu the really depressing thing about it is that they do that garbage to actually affect only around 10% of the voters—the absolute dumbest voters who can be swayed and who supposedly decide all elections. The swing voters.
Freegards